Briarbrook Antiques Auction

Join us for an exciting auction at The Varnum Armory 6 Main Street East Greenwich, R.I. 

Monday March 30, 2015

Schedule- Over 150 Box Lots at 5 pm, Ephemera Lots at 6 pm , Main Antiques Auction 6:30 pm, Coins & Currency at 8:30 pm

Preview Sunday March 29th. from 1 to 5 pm , and day of sale beginning at 11 am

Military: Ex-Military Museum collection of Over 30 WWI & WWII Original War Effort Posters, Japanese WWII bayonet, U.S. WWII machete, WWI German butcher bayonet, WWII Army Air Force life vest, 2 bronze 19^th.c small working cannons, 1864 Soldier’s Fair framed lithograph ,grouping of 48 star flags,  Firearms: Ex –Military Museum Collection -  Remington Enfield Model 1917, 2  Model 1878 Waffen Fabrik Bern Franco Prussian Rifle , U.S. Springfield Trap Door Rifle w/Bayonet, Bannerman’s “ Parts Gun” rifle, British Percussion Musket/ Target Rifle

Furniture/Accessories: 19^th.c. heavily decorated inlaid slant front desk, c.1810 Massachusetts  tambour desk provenance - owner & Mayflower descendant Jacob Otis (b.1777 d. 1830),  tall 1 drawer Federal period table,  Mission leather chair, Barrister stacking bookcase, c.1940 Steelcase bookcase,  Victorian piano stool, 1940 Philco grandfather clock radio, oak marble top table, Victorian marbletop gentleman’s dressing table, Rocking chair from Barnum estate, curved glass oak china cabinet, alabaster table, Lucite tables, set of 4 mid-century modern Sculptura chairs, chrome & marble side table, pair mid-century modern wood slat stools,  mahogany open bookcase, early blanket chest,

Ephemera Lots To Be Sold At 6 pm: Complete (7) collection of 1945 Ben Nason New Haven Railroad travel posters, 1936 Roosevelt Canvas Campaign poster, R.I. postcards, R.I. fire & police photos, tin types, dags & ambrotypes,  black memorabilia photos, stereoviews, 4 boxes ex-museum glass slides, early maps,  Victorian trade card album, Victorian valentines,  boxed lots of vintage magazines, Joslin Company Archive, misc. early 19^th.c. ledgers, autograph books, early R.I. & New Hampshire maps,  yard long photo of Paris Expo with Eiffel tower,  Books from Newport Mansion Library: 23 vol. Works Of Dickens 1873, 15 vol. Dickens Works c1870, 12 vol. Waverly Novels c.1870, 27 vol. British Poets, 10 vol. Works of Motley 1888, 12 vol. Works of Burke 1867, 18 vol. Works of Balzac 1867, 30 vol. 1878 Bulwer Works, 6 vol. Spectator 1867,  plus much more. Most all are ¾ leather-bound. 1899 Gallant Little Patriots – Maud Humphrey, 1923 Auntie Jack’s Nonsense Rhymes w/tipped plates, 2 Jessie Wilcox Smith illustrated first editions, 10 Beatrix Potter books, 1968 Yellow Submarine pop out book.  

Coins & Paper Money:  Over 20 lots coin & currency lots to include: 1909 2.50 gold , 1925 2.50 gold , 2006 5.00 gold, 1926 2.50 gold, 1921 half dollar, 2004 & 2006 –W proof silver eagles, 1888-O hot lips double die dollar, 1873 arrows quarters, silver dollars, 1883 no cents, 1921 half, commemorative halves,

Art: 10 R.I. artist Spencer Crooks watercolors, unsigned c.1850 Hudson River School, 1918 o/c 19x24 J. Eliot Enacking, o/b 15 x 11 George Albert Thompson, o/b Conrad Thomas, 2 MacIvor Reddie paintings of Maine Seacoast , unusual painted diorama, 19^th.c. 24 x 28 in.needlework, 19^th.c. 20 x 36 o/c with Sheep by J.C. Carter, o/c c.1870 floral Emma Levinia Swan, pair 1893 o/c Isabelle Forrest Ct.scenes,  Churchill Ettinger etching, 1939 George Quaintance lithograph – The Kiss,

Sterling/Porcelain/Glass/Pottery:  Satsuma vase, Cloisonné vase, Majolica lily pad bowl, mid-century art pottery, Murano, R.I. advertising bottles, several sterling lots, Chinese charger, Roseville thornapple & clematis flower pots, Steuben shade, Pairpoint lamp, Roseville tea set, c. 1930 character inkwell, Shelley Dainty Blue lot,

Instruments:  c.1912 New Proportion Holton Cornet, Knilling violin, 1961 Gibson acoustical guitar, Gibson Les Paul model guitar, Memphis Z guitar, c.1880 violin w/bow in case,

Other Items of Interest:  KPM 19^th.c porcelain plaque w/impressed KPM scepter & monogram, c.1860 patriotic Masonic silk banner, full figure pig weathervane, ,   6 arm Eastlake gas chandelier, 1915 gilt figural hanging lantern, bronze Oriental lantern, fancy wood gilt hall mirror, pair 19^th.c. French sconces, Miller slag glass lamp, wall hang wood medicine cabinet,  rowel spurs w/jingle bobs, early Steiff bears & monkeys, Steiff turkey, Singer Sew Handy model 20 childs sewing machine ,  1959 set of 8 Three Stooges Have Rocket Will Travel Lobby cards, c.1950 large 27 in. Pelham Puppet Mickey Mouse store display, pocket watches, large selection fine & costume jewelry, signed Trifari jewelry, bronze sculpture, bronze relief, vintage furs, vintage hats, perfume collection,  early ride-on horse, early Red Sox & Providence Reds pennants, African carved statue, Aerolux figural filament bulbs, sword & flask canes, medical field chest, Exacto store display kit, bronze figural inkwell,  33 in. chalkware bust, quilts, canes & walking sticks, 1840 signed silhouette,  plus much more.

Special Early Preview Sunday 1 to 5 pm, Preview day of sale beginning at 11 am.

Absentee and phone bids accepted

Over 150 Box Lots at 5pm, Ephemera Lots at 6 pm, Main Auction 6:30, Coins at 8:30